As has been remarked, it is a brilliant irony that David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, has just beaten his boss the Prime Minister, using the European Court of Justice (ECJ) as the stick.

In good news for anyone who values their privacy, the Snooper’s Charter has been attacked by the ECJ which has sided with Davis. Europe’s highest Court has ruled that data can’t be held as broadly and indiscriminately as the government sought to do in the Investigatory Powers Bill.

It’s sad that it took the ECJ’s intervention to protect our basic rights, and worrying that this judgment may only provide a temporary respite from ever-growing state surveillance.